Ffolkes,
“If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.”
~~ Anatole France ~~
Yeehaw! Next stop,Times Square!
Image from the UK Telegraph POTD 8/4/2015
Hajime…. In the recent past, I’ve been spending a lot of time inside my head, searching even further inside myself, to find the answers to all the issues presented to me by my reactions to reality. The primary result, in re: writing this blog each day, has been to make it difficult to feel any connection to the creative process. It might have to do with how I deal with pain, since I’m having less; it’s been clear for quite a while my pain has been one of the more stimulating factors in creating the angst needed to supply fuel to the fires of my meager creativity. So, perhaps that is the whole problem; sort of an anti-problem, since it’s because my pain is reduced in total.
With that being said, I find myself, this morning, rather reluctant to even begin putting together a Pearl for today. I do have pieces partly done, but, the energy to make the effort to bring it together seems to be missing, gone poof while talking on Skype to a friend about today’s Brexit vote. The political/sociological depths we explored while talking seems to have eliminated any desire to write. This, of course, is a bit frustrating, since it took place BEFORE beginning, and removed most of the stimulating factors in conversation. Therefore, I’ve made a decision, to post only a truncated Pearl. Another WYSIWYG post, as it were.
So, at this juncture, I can’t even say what you’ll find below this intro. What I do know is, whatever you find is all there is for today. You won’t need to worry about it being over-long today, that’s for sure. In order to get even that much done in a timely fashion is impossible, since I’m already almost an hour past my personal deadline to post, I’ll have to cut it ruthlessly, and get it done in what we like to call jig-time. Don’t know what that means, but, we say it anyway.
That’s all for today, ffolkes. I’ll see y’all tomorrow…. Maybe. If not, I’ll leave a note, with another whiny apology. Actually, no, I won’t, but, hey, it sounds good, and it takes up a little more space. Let’s go see what we can find to help get this done….
Shall we Pearl?….
“Cease to be ruled by dogmas and authorities; look at the world!”
~~ H.G. Wells paraphrase of Roger Bacon’s works ~~
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Bonnie Raitt
Just because it’s her, and it’s easy…. Enjoy!….
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Bonnie Raitt
Live in Germany 1992
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Dead Hands,Typing…
Puzzled anew by anomalous blocks of pain
caught, bemused, chained to routine, insane.
Stilled within breathless beauty
Engaging epiphany, insistent, called to duty.
Knees bent in lieu of a faithful rendition
suffuses, confuses, locked into stale perdition.
Clearing corrosion with hands encased in stone
Singular frozen follicles, masked by bone.
Partial focus brings unfiltered flavors to light
coloring each particle in simple delight.
Forlorn, novel conceptual artists singing in tune
nine notes in harmony, soft as the moon.
Honed blades of carbon steel flash in rhyme,
filling sensual receptors well past closing time.
Borrowed from neighbors in a week-old game
still bloody, without a proper name.
No flooded memories can justify such cost
no simple stationery, bilious, afraid, lost.
Ten times ten will never be enough
To fill so empty a stolen trough.
Bartering simplicity takes well into the night
solidly temporary pillars turned bright.
Unknown to all the pretty children who came
none were called, none had any remaining flame.
~~ gigoid ~~
2/25/2015
It just seemed appropriate…..
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Naked Pearls
Three Blind Mice
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“I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.”
~~ Antoine de Saint Exupery ~~
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Believe me!
“The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness
and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously!”
~~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche ~~
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How could the drops of water know themselves to be a river? Yet the river flows on.”
~~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~~
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Well, I did it. It’s not much, but, there ’tis, in all its faded glory. So be it. I’ll be back, ffolkes. Count on it….
Y’all take care out there,
and May the Metaphorse be with you;
Blessed Be, dearest Carole, Mark,Theresa, & Richy
and everyone else, too…
When I works, I works hard.
When I sits, I sits loose.
When I thinks, I falls asleep.
Which is Why….
Sometimes I sits and thinks,
and sometimes,
I just sits.
gigoid, the dubious
The *only* duly authorized Computer Curmudgeon.
PLEASE STOP READING THIS MESSAGE NOW.
“SCRAM!!!!!!!!!!”- Oscar the Grouch
À bientôt, mon cherí….
gigoid 
My days have been sluggish at best…..I cannot keep a thought for longer than a fart….I wish I had more but today is gonna be a slim day for vocalizations…LOL chuq
I hear that; much the same here, for less reason, as I am certain your pain is greater than mine. The Phoenix Tears are working at improving my condition, meaning less overall pain, but, the PTSD remains active. I’ll be napping a lot today, I think….
Have the best one you can, amigo….
gigoid
Hope the rest is helpful….chuq
Pain is an interesting thing..
Even Breathing..
Even Living..
And there
are nows
for some
where life
is not interesting
at all.. perhaps they
are working.. working..
just a part of a machine for
another.. day.. starving or even
starved for emotions.. moving..
connections and creating..
yes.. i’ve been without
all this.. except for
the food part..
as i always
had something
to eat.. but something
to eat is rather empty
too if one cannot enjoy
the food.. i’ve been there
too.. hmm.. i took a nap
on my mothers recliner
and what i learned
long ago..
is the best
way NOT to aggravate
Severe Degenerative
Arthritis in the neck
is to keep one’s head
straight ahead.. and never
ever get tense.. stay loose
so muscles do not constrict
the degenerating parts
to come greater
inflamed..
anyway..
i am reminded
clearly of the side
of the head that feels
a little like a big toothache
on the left side of my entire
head.. as those nerves and muscles
in neck are connected all around the head
too.. anyway.. i have the will to make the pain
go away.. i would explain how i could do it.. if it
wasn’t entirely a non-verbal process of power inside..
and i can bring the pain on at will as well.. but of course
i choose the former.. and get my head straight and continue
zero tension.. fears.. anxieties of life as comfort comes and
stays again.. my friend.. The Body keeps score.. it really does..
as science shows there are receptors for happy neuro-chemicals/
hormones in peptide way in every cell from head to toe.. as vagal
nerve equivalent of kundalini rising or falling from Brain to gut
spreads the good news positive feelings. or bad news
negative feelings.. inside.. outside.. above..
so below and all around in almost
infinite connections from
neurons to cells
all around
a human
now..
lots of
self healing
as the body
remembers
positive or negative
feelings as a way
of future life.. now..
more for those who can
escape the almost unavoidable
constant sometimes fight or flight
stress that spells the insanity of modern
society.. away from moving.. connecting..
and creating.. in touchy feely human way..
Sure.. just more evidence that some
folks live in heaven.. and
hell can be very
difficult to escape..
glad your pain is subsiding
friend.. and sleep is certainly
a recovery way for that too..
and with more
sleep means
sometimes
less dopamine
the creativity chemical
but the trade off for less pain..
is fair enough.. overall.. i guess..
Emotions motivate me for creativity
from sadness to joy and more than that..
Pain forced me to write for 33 months..
can’t say most of it was creative..
but lots of facts explored
in 5 plus million
words to that
point..
and before that
for 33 months i could
not write.. or read.. or look
at TV.. a computer screen
without intolerable pain..
and nature or even
colored photos
too.. or even
anything..
bottom line..
yeah.. those were the
hardest months of all
in Fibromyalgia.. Severe Arthritis..
Sjogren’s Syndrome.. Dysautonomia
Coat Hanger pain.. and sure some
more odds and ends of extreme pain..
including the worse pain known to mankind
from wake to sleep.. aka Type Two Trigeminal
Neuralgia that i’ve oft talked to here too.. before
of course.. and no.. no drug of any kind.. not even
opiate associated drugs would touch that pain
AT ALL.. AND I suppose i could HAVE gotten
MAD at Nature.. but nah.. i just whined and
couldn’t cry with no tear of relief..
for two years.. until
everyone got tired
of hearing
it.. never
understanding
how much i needed
a gun to end it all..
and i remember how frantic
i was one morning when i couldn’t
find our Cat Arthur as he was kinda
my only nuance of any kind back to emotions
and i couldn’t help but to have the kind of human
empathy.. of just how bad my wife.. sister and
mother would feel if i ended my pain for good..
and bad the same.. Catch 22 from
hell and back
and hell
all around
my friend..
Perspective..
and i suppose i am
just as joyful as hell in
heaven that i can make this
FUCKING PAIN GO AWAY..
WITH WILL MY FRIEND.. AND WILL..
OF THE RELATIVE HUMAN FREE TYPE
IS THE MOST POWERFUL FUCKING MEDICINE
IN THE WORLD.. sure.. the higher power of God and
or nature in us same.. for those of we who find a
way to tap it.. make it real.. and practice
a healing way of life that has
no equal in the world
of medicine..
or whatever
that is weaker
than the power..
the potential of human
will.. Free Will is the Will
to control how one feels and senses
in mastery and integration of that whole..
And with that.. Heaven is now.. as it ends
and begins in how we feel and sense the
world at hand now.. with no one really
who can add anything to that.
but challenge
and a
Win again..
for those who
master life.. my friend..
Anyway.. again.. there is
always hope even if one can
never feel that emotions when
there is WILL that NEVER EVER GIVES UP..
AND TO END HERE.. my great aunt Jettie
at 94.. as crooked and crippled as any
old person one might see..
with arthritis from
head to toe..
could make her
pain go away at 94 without
any drugs either.. she gave me
a hope of that potential umbrella
of life to me then.. and now it’s
open wide my friend
and the
rain of
pain never
stays now..
as Joy Lives with
Human Relative Free WiLL..:)
Got to this late, & will get back to it in the a.m…..
Nada left today.
gigoid
Sorry about the dead GIF in the first comment. Trying again. Here goes.
OH!
It’s alive! Never mind!